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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Container"
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"Light"
returned 4 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Container"
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"Light"
returned 4 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Just so the Head of Man contains within / The Intellect, with Rays and Light Divine."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1735
"Her lovely Mind shines chearful thro' her Face, / A sacred Lamp in a fair Crystal Case."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: March 1756
"The thought-kindling light, / Thy prime production, darts upon my mind / Its vivifying beams, my heart illumines, / And fills my soul with gratitude and Thee."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1788
"Hence at each sound imagination glows; / Hence his warm lay with softest sweetness flows; / Melting it flows, pure, numerous, strong and clear, / And fills the impassioned heart and lulls the harmonious ear."
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
